3. This week’s message: The Lesson of the Slave Woman Galatians 4:21-25

9. This Week - Galatians 4:21-25 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

10. This Week - Galatians 4:21-25 24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

11. Next Week - Galatians 4:26-31 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27 For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.”

12. Next Week - Galatians 4:26-31 28 Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. 30 But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.” 31 So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.

13. Who is being addressed?

14. What Paul’s (unstated) point?

15. Who is being addressed? What Paul’s (unstated) point? What is being compared/contrasted to illustrate Paul’s point?

16. Who is being addressed? What Paul’s (unstated) point? What is being compared/contrasted to illustrate Paul’s point? What is one thing God would teach us through this account?

17. Who is being addressed?

18. Galatians 4:21a 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

20. What is Paul’s (unstated) point?

21. Galatians 4:21b 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

22. What is Paul’s (unstated) point? Galatians 2:15-16 15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; 16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

23. What is Paul’s (unstated) point? Galatians 2:21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

24. What is Paul’s (unstated) point? Galatians 3:10-11 10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” 11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”

25. What is Paul’s (unstated) point? Galatians 4:4-7 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

26. What is Paul comparing/contrasting?

27. Galatians 4:22a 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

28. A summary of Abraham’s story Genesis 12:1-3 – The Call to Go! Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

29. A summary of Abraham’s story Genesis 12:1-3 – The Call to Go! Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Abraham = 75 years old

30. A summary of Abraham’s story Genesis 15:1-6 – The covenant of God 15 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” 2 But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.”

31. A summary of Abraham’s story Genesis 15:1-6 – The covenant of God 4 And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.” 5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 6 And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

32. A summary of Abraham’s story Genesis 16:1-4 – A son is born! Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

33. A summary of Abraham’s story Genesis 16:1-4 – A son is born! 3 So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. 4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived.

34. A summary of Abraham’s story Genesis 16:1-4, 16 – A son is born! 3 So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. 4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived… 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

35. A summary of Abraham’s story Genesis 17:15-21 – The promised son 15 And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. 16 I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.” 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

36. A summary of Abraham’s story Genesis 17:15-21 – The promised son 18 And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!” 19 God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly…21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.”

37. A summary of Abraham’s story Genesis 21:1-2 – THE son is born! 1 The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised. 2 And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.

38. What is Paul comparing/contrasting? Galatians 4:22-23 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

39. Son #1Son #2

40. Son #1 By a slave woman Son #2 By a free woman

41. Son #1 By a slave woman Born according to the flesh Son #2 By a free woman Born according to the promise

43. What is Paul comparing/contrasting? Galatians 4:24-25 24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

44. Covenant #1 Son #1 - Ishmael By a slave woman – Hagar Born according to the flesh Covenant #2 Son #2 – Isaac By a free woman – Sarah Born according to the promise

45. What is Paul comparing/contrasting? Galatians 4:24-25 24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

46. What is Paul comparing/contrasting? Galatians 4:25 24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

47. Covenant #1 Son #1 - Ishmael By a slave woman – Hagar Born according to the flesh Mount Sinai (i.e. The Law) Present Jerusalem (i.e. The Temple) Covenant #2 Son #2 – Isaac By a free woman – Sarah Born according to the promise

48. What is one thing God would teach us?

49. Galatians 4:25 24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

50. What is one thing God would teach us? Galatians 4:30 30 But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.”

51. Gospel Application

52. John 5:39-40 39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

53. Gospel Application What is one good thing you’ve allowed to become a God thing ?